PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychoactive Drug, Cognitive Therapy, Freudian Slip

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY240H1
• Professor: Hywel Morgan

Document Summary

There are also a sister psychology: counseling psychology. Not so interested in pathologies, more so issues in things like marriage, relationships, etc. Researchers have a similar code of ethics and legal principles. Still practice psychotherapy, but with no focus on pathologies. The aftermath of wwii affected how psychology as a profession was practised. Nazis conducted experiments on people in concentration camps against their will. These were conducted in nierenberg (n. trials) Affected how professionals interact with patients behaviourally and medically. The key issue that came out of trials was the concept of informed consent. From this, people were given the right to deny participation. Law is a written law that you have to do, you have no choice. Ethics are guidelines of how we should. Clinical psychologist behavior: the #1 guideline is that you are not supposed to sleep with your clients.